today i went to the west hollywood book fair. i sat in on the ‘star trek: the manga‘ panel and had my copy signed by wil wheaton, don hudson, christine boylan and mike wellman. mike noted that my name was ‘kara’ “like starbuck!” which launched us into a whole battlestar galactica – bionic woman – burbank bsg convention discussion. afterwards i bought about $70 worth of comics then saw the ‘fables‘ panel with bill willingham, james jean and matthew sturges. i got the first trade of ‘jack of fables’ and the special golden apple ‘fables’ tshirt signed and also the book fair program guide, which james jean had illustrated. after that i saw ‘readings from banned books’ at the robertson salon. gary dourdan, xander berkeley, sarah clarke, catherine dent and adrean robbins read from various controversial books in a really intimate setting. very cool.

last night i went to oktoberfest with meghan and some of her grip friends from ‘zoey’. it was a great time – those guys are hilarious – but the whole situation was slightly odd since i had just been to germany. old world is in huntington beach and looks remarkably like the places i saw around the alps (except for the spanish tile roofs); there were painted buildings, lederhosen to buy and a german-speaking band. i sort of had a ‘bizarro-world’ feeling the entire time i was there, but it was easy to forget about it and have a good time. especially after austin explained ‘the spiderman’ and jacob was coerced into his 3rd mystery shot.